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The LDAP authentication provider package. Interfaces are provided for
both authentication and retrieval of user roles from an LDAP server.
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The main provider class is <tt>LdapAuthenticationProvider</tt>.
This is configured with an <tt>LdapAuthenticator</tt> instance and
an <tt>LdapAuthoritiesPopulator</tt>. The latter is used to obtain the
list of roles for the user.
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